Critical Engagement with Scholarship (PPX103Z)

Content

This unit focuses on further developing candidates’ skills in identifying, locating, critically reading and integrating the professional and academic scholarship in their area of study. It develops candidates’ capacity to effectively summarise the existing theoretical and practical knowledge in their area of study, including ethical spiritual and/or theological considerations, and identify the knowledge and/or practice gap their own research will address. The genre of the Literature Review as a piece of writing will be explicitly explored.

Learning outcomes

Pedagogy

By teaching through collegial collaboration and learning via critical reflection conducted independently and in community, the unit engages theory and practice to achieve learning outcomes.

Indicative Bibliography

• Berry, Ralph. The Research Project: How to Write It. 5th Edition. New York: Routledge, 2004.
• Booth, W., et al. The Craft of Research. 4th ed. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2018.
• Bryman, A. Social Research Methods. 5th Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
• Cameron, H., and Catherine Duce. Researching Practice in Ministry and Mission: A Companion. London: SCM Press, 2013.
• Denzin, N. The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research. 5th Edition. London: Sage Publications, 2018.
• Fink, A. Conducting Research Literature Reviews: From the Internet to the Paper. 5th ed. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2019.
• Gray, D. Doing Research in the Real World. 4th Edition. London: Sage Publications, 2018.
• Rogers, J. "Towards an Indigenous literature re-view methodology: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander boarding school literature." Aust. Educ. Res. (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13384-023-00654-4
• Swinton, J., and Mowat, H. Practical Theology and Qualitative Research. 2nd Edition. London: SCM Press, 2016.
• Turabian, Kate L. A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations: Chicago Style for Students and Researchers. Edited by Wayne C Booth, Gregory G Colomb, Joseph M Williams, Joseph Bizup, and William T FitzGerald. 9th ed. Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. (recommended for purchase)

Assessment